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会津地方に眠る幻の伝統文化
喜多方の染型紙「会津型」

江戸時代から着物の柄を染める為に使われてきた染型紙。
伊勢白子や京都、江戸に並ぶ一大産地として喜多方(福島県会津地方)にも染型紙文化があり、東北地方の装飾文化に寄与してきました。
しかし、海外からの技術の流入により100年続いてきた喜多方の染型紙「会津型」の歴史は1935年(昭和10年)その幕を閉じました。
それから経ること約半世紀。
当時、制作販売を一手に行っていた小野寺家の藏に眠っていた約37,000点もの「染型紙」が1982年(昭和57年)に発見され、喜多方市に寄贈されました。
その「染型紙」は、福島県及び喜多方市の有形民俗文化財となり、研究資源として保存、管理されています。

「AIZUGATA×Graphics(会津型グラフィックス)」は福島県会津地方に眠る喜多方の染型紙「会津型」の魅力的なデザインを現代風にアレンジして商品化するプロジェクトです。

運営:株式会社ユニフォームネット 企画部
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A secret traditional culture hidden away in the Aizu region. 
Kitakata dye pattern "Aizugata"

Dyeing pattern paper that has been used for dyeing kimono patterns since the Edo period.
Kitakata (Aizu region, Fukushima Prefecture), which is one of the largest producers in the industry, alongside Ise Shiroko, Kyoto, and Edo, has a dyed paper culture that has contributed to the decorative culture of the Tohoku region.
However, the history of Kitakata's dyeing paper, Aizugata, which had continued for more than 100 years due to the inflow of technology from overseas, closed its production in 1935.
About half a century has passed since then.
At that time, about 37,000 pieces of dye pattern paper that had been stored away in the warehouse of the Onodera family, who were engaged in the production and sales of this paper, were discovered in 1982 (Showa 57). After they were discovered, they were donated to Kitakata City.
The dyed pattern paper became a tangible folk cultural asset in Fukushima Prefecture and Kitakata City, and is now preserved and managed as a research resource.

"AIZUGATA x Graphics" is a project to commercialize the attractive design of Kitakata's Aizugata dye paper, which is hidden away in the Aizu region of Fukushima Prefecture, in a modern way.

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